Bremerton's Adrian recognized for his 100-meter gold

Adrian wins his second Golden Goggles award

Bremerton's Nathan Adrian picked up a Golden Goggles award to go with the two gold medals he won at the London Olympics.

The Golden Goggles Awards, held in New York on Monday night, are USA Swimming's annual awards banquet.

Adrian won male race of the year for his victory in the 100-meter freestyle at the Olympics. Adrian, who won the race by just .01 seconds over favored James Magnussen of Australia, became the first U.S. man to win the event since Matt Biondi did it in 1988.Last week, The Sun announced that Adrian has joined with The Salvation Army to support the organization's Red Kettle Campaign.

The Olympic champion will be making online and in-person appearances through the holiday season.

The team of Missy Franklin, Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer and Allison Schmitt that broke a world record in the 400 medley relay while winning gold at London won the Golden Goggles relay of the year.

Fresh off her four gold medals in London, the 17-year-old Franklin won the women's swimmer of the year. She's now contemplating if she should join the high school squad at Regis Jesuit outside Denver for her senior season. She's well aware of criticism asserting that her presence would unfairly deny other, non-Olympian swimmers of high school championships.

"If I had anyone who swims high school come up to me and tell me they don't want me to swim, I would absolutely not swim," Franklin said Monday. "But everyone who I've talked to has been so supportive of it. So it's so hard when I have so many people that are really wanting me to do it and so supportive, and I have other people who are saying it's not fair. 'Why would you do this to other girls?' And I feel so bad thinking that they would think that.

"It's hard, because I feel like no matter what I do, it's going to be opposed in some way or form."

Phelps earned male athlete of the year honors for the fourth time after winning six medals, four gold, in London in his final meet.

Katie Ledecky, the 800 freestyle champion at age 15, won female race of the year for breaking Janet Evans' 23-year-old American record and breakout performer.

Bob Bowman, who coached Phelps and Schmitt, was coach of the year.

Jessica Hardy, who qualified for the Olympics four years after a drug ban kept her from Beijing, won the perseverance award.

Eric Shanteau, an Olympian and cancer survivor, won the athlete humanitarian award for his work to raise money for cancer research.

In his retirement, Phelps is tackling another sport: golf. He's working with noted swing coach Hank Haney for the Golf Channel show "The Haney Project."

"I got out of a 14-, 15-year relationship with Bob, and now I'm right back in with another hard-core coach," Phelps said.

"They're exactly the same," the 22-time Olympic medalist said. "They have the same amount of passion. They know exactly what they want and they're just going to force it out of you."

Franklin recently decided to swim at California in college and to compete there for two years before turning pro after the 2016 Rio Olympics. But first, she has to sort out her high school swimming plans.

The season has already started in Colorado, so out of fairness to her coach and teammates, she wants to make the latest of her big decisions quickly.

"I've had to make a lot of them, and to be honest I'm kind of tired of them, and I don't want to make them anymore," Franklin said. "But I think this is my last big decision for a while."

Adrian's resumed training after taking some time off and, like Franklin, will be aiming for more gold at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.